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Windows 7: Help! - cloned SSD not booting directly

I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 on Win 7 with a 128 SSD. Decided it needed more space so I cloned it to a 250 SSD with Acronis. I have done this with Acronis several times on other machines and never had this problem. Now when I put the new SSD back in, the system says "failed to boot, no drive detected". The only way I can get it to boot is hitting F12 and selecting on "Boot from Windows boot manager".

legacy boot is turned off and I have tried changing the boot order, but still no luck. It seems that even when I disable NIC Booting, POST still tries to check for PXE boot IP and then it gives the "failed to boot, no drive detected".

Help! - cloned SSD not booting directly

Computer is now booting to the UEFI instead of directly to WindowsAfter installing a round of usual updates (Microsoft Security updates, Virus definition updates), my computer asked to restart so it could finish applying the updates. Nothing suspicious there, as this is pretty normal. However, when it restarted, my computer booted to the motherboard's UEFI...

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Booting directly from logical partition causes strange problemI have a quad boot PC which has a very strange problem – when I boot directly into a logical partition, the other two logical partitions are recognised by windows as being primary. Let me explain. I didn’t want to use the MS boot manager, so I am using a 3rd party boot manager (OSL200), and what I...

Installation & Setup

Booting from cloned drive - MacriumHi all,
I've just cloned a hard drive on a laptop which I then tried to boot from (switched over hard drives installing new cloned drive).
I keep receiving the error message, "no operating system".
One thing that i have noticed is that the letter on the drive is F and not C.
Does...

Installation & Setup

Error message "BOOTMGR is missing" when booting directly into driveHi,
I just put together a brand new haswell gaming rig and installed windows 7.
Long story short, I copied the contents of my windows 7 installation disc into an internal SATA drive (1600BEVT-22ZCT0) and installed windows onto another internal SATA drive (ST3160215AS).
My problem is that in...

Installation & Setup

Issue booting Win 7, booting directly into XP & no boot managerHi,
I just got a ASUS G75V series and updated it to windows 7 professional with Intel core i7.
I was able to work with it and everything was fine until I had to install XP because some softwares are not compatible with Win 7 x64.
I have Win 7 on drive C: and windows xp on drive E: which in...

Installation & Setup

Thunderbird 2.0 directly to 14?Has anyone migrated from Thunderbird 2.0 directly to 14?? 2.0 is working fine for me but I'm feeling like I'm out of date with no multiple tab interface. Has anyone successfully gone from 2.0 installed(not portable version) to 14 installed?
I'm looking to avoid trashing 2.0 until I see if 14...